“Interacting with a desktop computer takes place in a bubble, in dedicated times and places where the user or student has their back to the rest of world for a substantial and probably premeditated episode. Interacting with mobile technologies is different and is woven into all the times and places of students’ lives. Mobile phones have created “simultaneity of place” (International Telecommunications Union 2004, 20; paraphrasing Plant 2002): a physical space and a virtual space of conversational interaction, and an extension of physical space, through the creation and juxtaposition of a mobile social space. Mobile devices demolish the need to tie particular activities to particular places or particular times. They are reconfiguring the relationships between public and private spaces and the ways in which these relationships are penetrated by mobile virtual spaces.” Traxler, J. (2010). Students and mobile devices. Alt-j, 18(2), 149-160.
